ABOVE: Students of A.B. McBay Elementary kindergarten teacher Emily Draper, with a little help from their families hold a neighborhood parade in front of their teacher’s home on Holly Lane Thursday, April 30. Easton Hayes, 6, sits atop the first car, which is decorated with posters that say “You’re the best teacher ever, Mrs. Draper,” and another that read, “I love you – Easton.”
ABOVE: Mexia’s Mike Terry Chevrolet dealership provided free Jim’s Krispy Fried chicken dinners to all Parkview Regional Hospital employees on Thursday, April 30. Shown here, from left, are Mark Ozaeta, with Parkview’s Maintenance Department, Josue Hernandez, Mike Terry sales rep, and Denisha Morton, Parkview executive assistant and medical staff coordinator.
[From December 1884 to September 1885, an ax-wielding killer took the lives of five women in an unprecedented spree that terrified the citizens of Austin and left police at a loss for clues and suspects. Worst of all, the monster O. Henry called “The Servant Girl Annihilator” was not done yet.]
As families are creating new routines and learning how to educate students from home, the Texas Historical Commission (THC) is providing free instructive resources and online education about Texas history, preservation, and heritage tourism as an alternative to visiting a historic site or museum.
“Short Call – Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1835 – 2000” is the most delightful book I have read in a very long time. It was funny, interesting, truthful, and even, refreshing. Written by Joyce Gibson Roach, an award-winning author and published by the University of North Texas. The snippets are only each a few pages long and all occur in Turtle, Texas. A town developed for these stories. I thought, perhaps, the best way to show the stories was to copy one of shortest snippets as a review. I chose the snippet called “Cleanliness is Next to …. Outhouses.”
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